Just finished a 17 day tour around the north and south of NZ. What an experience! Cannot recommend Alex, our tour guide, enough. He was always willing to help with anything and very friendly. The activities were well planned and spaced out enough with free time to be enjoyable. We saw a range of different places around NZ including Queenstown, Auckland, Taupo, Tekapo and many others. We also got to see a Māori village, did hikes and adrenaline packed activities like skydiving and paragliding. Special shout out to Alex and his amazing instrumental sl*t drops.
Thank you for an incredible tour. I so enjoyed this group! It was fun as well as exhausting. The guides were wonderful, nothing was too much trouble for them. Thank you Spud for carrying my back all day when I was feeling unwell.
I would highly suggest having Queenstown at the start or earlier in the tour. Having it so late meant that by that time my budget was spent and I wasn't able to do as much as I would have liked, I would have preferred using my budget in Queenstown and being a penny pincher in the smaller stays beforehand. My tour apparently was one of the last under that itinerary, so the information we were giving in our paperwork didn't match some of the activities or accommodations, not a complaint, just a statement. Overall it was a good tour, I would recommend it, but I won't be repeating it.